Mullai Tinai
The Ayars initially lived in Mullai Tinai also known as pastoral tracts. Here cattle was the main source of wealth. P.T Srinivas Iyengar in his book History of the Tamils suggests that since cattle wealth tended to multiply fast the first evidence of fission of tribes into families happened in this region. Rajan Gurukal stretches this argument to mention that state formation took place initially in the mullai region.
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